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...others, John ("Jock") McGovern and Campbell Stephen, were tellers, could not vote...
Cabled Larry Allen from his hospital bed in Alexandria: "Jock Anderson was the bravest, most courageous newspaper correspondent I have ever known. ... I was with him when the Illustrious was attacked by German planes for seven hours. . . . Anderson emerged smiling...
Early in the war, Jock McGovern advocated a negotiated peace, on the grounds that there was little to choose between capitalist Britain and totalitarian Germany. Recently, when told that he would have to do a turn of fire-watching on the House of Commons roof, Jock McGovern replied that he would "see the Government in hell...
Last week British democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence...
Finally the Independent Laborites offered an amendment calling for immediate self-government for British dependencies, for a Socialist Charter instead of the Atlantic Charter. As tellers, Jock McGovern and one of his Independent Labor comrades were prevented from voting. The amendment was defeated...